The NEVAT is a Dutch branch organisation for industrial suppliers. They provide, on a non-profit base, services for their members such as coaching, lobbying and organising meetings to get the members in contact with other players in the industry. From previous research and experience, the NEVAT found …

This research focuses on effective social value measurement. It starts by outlining the competitive environment, which is under economic pressure due to limited resources. Commissioners of public services are driven to include social value into their decision making. The problem for social enterprises …

Cordaid, one of the biggest development organisations in the Netherlands, works on several topics to reduce poverty all over the world. One particular topic is Urban Matters that designs smart solutions for slums. Cordaid Urban Matters has given the assignment to conduct research regarding successful …

This book describes how policy workers and administrators of local councils and non-profit organisations can contribute to a social domain in which the people’s strengths are better utilized within the framework of the Social Support Act (Wmo). The book is built up around the three assignments a government …

According to the resource dependence theory, organisations draw upon interorganisational relationships to address the need for additional resources. The purpose of this study was to analyse whether sport clubs with serious resource problems regarding members, human resources (volunteers and coaches), …

The concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Community Investment are not clearly defined in literature as of yet. However, considering the recent surge of attention these concepts have gotten, they have become points of interest for the general public, governments, commercial organisation, …

This paper examines the importance of relationship marketing in the non-profit organisation, specifically focused on the alumni. Embracing the existing customers in an organisation is regarded to be more profitable in the long run. As non-profit organisations face a limited amount of resources, they …

The EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a non-profit organisation based in Malaysia. The core business of the Chamber is advocacy through lobbying and events. The Chamber has asked for a visibility strategy to be set. The reason for this is that with many chambers of commerce and business …

De laatste decennia laten een spectaculaire groei zien in deelname aan en belangstelling voor sport. Parallel hieraan zijn grote veranderingen zichtbaar in de organisatorische infrastructuur van de sport: de opmars van een veelzijdig commercieel sportaanbod, nieuwe non-profit initiatieven en een groeiende …

This paper aims to provide an insight into the recently emerged phenomenon of sustainable events and its development as well as a prediction for the future paths this environment friendly way of organising events might take. Furthermore, this work will explore the opportunities sustainable events may …